Archive for January, 2011

Margaret was fairly sure that when she wrote her marriage-counseling book, she was going to include a chapter titled “Sleepfarting.” She could be fast asleep, and then out of nowhere would come the unwelcome warm breeze down her leg, the fluttering of the sheets, and the rotten-egg smell. Sometimes they’d be so bad as to [...]

Memphis Song I will turn in Memphis. Hear its heavy lungs. I will not lighten its load. It will not call my name. Ask for it. Ask til it remembers your name. Ask for the singing of your heavy name. Black lines hold up. White lines too. Bloodbread calls your heavy name.

Pretty swirls made with shapes and math. Procedural design is something I played around with a lot in college and I’ve started exploring it again. All of these designs were created in Flash using simple shapes manipulated by a bit of scripting language. There is something appealing about creating art that is somewhat out of [...]

Leon Redbone is a lunatic. A wonderful, wonderful lunatic. I have enjoyed Leon Redbone since I was a kid. I suspect the first time I saw him was in the 1970′s on SNL. His unique voice combined with his very apparent humor and fashion sense have always made for an entertaining presentation. Recently, my wife [...]

The group was silent, staring down at the new foot. Mr. Lee, Junior, Sue, and Little Junior, standing in a circle, eyes cast downward, would have appeared to be praying from anyone looking in the big window of Mr. Lee’s Prosthetic shop. “It looks colored,” Junior’s voice was barely audible. “What?” Mr. Lee asked. “The [...]

“You said you would show me the scars.” I can feel her recoil from me in the dark. “Why?” She said, her tone accusing. “Why do you want to see them?” “Well, cause I like you.” I try to be subtle, but not too obtuse. “And if we’re going to take this any farther, which [...]

Writing Song Tuneless singing, humming humming. Blood or bread, black lines hold you up, white lines too. Cradle it and spit – make text. Ask for the poem as the morning asks for you. Ask for the singing ask. Ask until the word loses meaning.

A little bit of work from the day job. It is pretty rare that I can post stuff from my day job. Usually that work is under a rather strict NDA. On top of that, User Interface design isn’t exactly the most interesting stuff to check out. “Look kids, this is the Controller Inversion options [...]

Some joker in Minnesota announced this week that the dates of the astrological birth signs has changed. And, while he was at it, he added another sign. Parke Kunkle with the Minnesota Planetarium Society (and an astronomy instructor at a community college) announced that due to a wobbly earth, the signs have to be adjusted. [...]

That last half of August the part of me I don’t admit to the tyrant I didn’t even know was in there set up shop (I worked on commission) and I think it’s fair to call it a shop of sweat and tears and blood eventually after I had put my handprints in the dust [...]

He hated his name and always had. Gareth Liekin. Gareth, born in the gutter to a whore mother who had nothing save her swear of a surname. Gareth, the latest sorry fool to have the unfortunate distinction of sharing some distant ancestry to the ancient prince Kell. A prince that had sold out his brothers, [...]

Train Dream (Crusoe in America) An island blooms inside, bloody, a flood of islands. Capture the islands – American as hell, American as trains running through bedrooms (where we go trains will follow (when I first, when I first heard train crash clatter, I thought America was ending)). Was I absent from the ocean? Pack [...]

The lady with the violet eyes. While digging through my hard drive I was surprised to see that I had never posted this illustration. It has been one of my favorites for awhile now. I created it as a gift for my friend Molly who had bugged me for years to “draw her looking pretty”. [...]

A few months ago I was hired by Getty Images to photograph a “secret time trial” in rural Arkansas. The event turned out to be a three day corporate confluence of insanity. What resulted came to be called the ”Maximum Warrior Challenge,” a partnership between Maxim Magazine’s “Hometown Hotties,” Dodge/Jeep, the Call of Duty video game [...]

It had skidded across the road and landed at the foot of Seth’s lawn chair, and had it had just a smidge more momentum, it would have taken him out with it. Seth sorta stared at it for a bit, unsure if getting up would provoke it, and not being the brave sort – unwilling [...]

A fresh painting for a new year. I’m back, and I brought new art with me! I apologize for my long hiatus. The last few months of 2010 brought me a new job, a new apartment, and enough stress to knock me right over the edge. But after a short break I am returned, refreshed [...]

We were fortunate enough to have out of town guests at the farm this holiday season. We wanted to show them a good time out there and no one makes a better guide to the ins-’n’-outs and secret spots around the county than my seven-year-old nephew.

Lucinda Belle Craddock née Van Mott clutched her bucket of quarters and pulled the lever one more time, for Frank. The little Chihuahua in her arms had always loved the rolling tumblers of the slots machines. Lucinda Belle had been told on more than one occasion that pets were strictly forbidden from the gaming floor [...]